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Title: The Bitter Cry of the Children

Author: John Spargo

Author of introduction, etc.: Robert Hunter

Release date: May 9, 2018 [eBook #57125]

Language: English

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THE BITTER CRY OF THE CHILDREN

A TYPICAL SCENE

The matron of a Day Nursery examining a child’s throat. The two “Little Mothers” are typical.

THE BITTER CRY OF THE CHILDREN

JOHN SPARGO

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

ROBERT HUNTER

AUTHOR OF “POVERTY”

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.

1906

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1906.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TO MY FRIEND

MRS. WILLIAM SHARMAN

Fide et Amore